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Sixty-Second Annual Session
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HELD WITH THE
MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
GASTON COUNTY. N. C.
September 19 th. 20 th and 21 st
1912
Moderator— Rov. A. C. Irvin ------ Route 5, Shelby, N. C.
Olerk- D. S. Lovelace Houte B, Shelby, N. C.
Treasurer— H. D. Wilson Shelby, 'N. C.
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KENDALL appreciates your trade. All out-of-town
orders given special and prompt attention.
Kendall’s Drug Store
(H. E. KENDALL.)
Phone 2 Shelby, N. C
COME TO SEE US
The next time you are in Shelby. You are
welcome whether you buy or not. Make
our store your headquarters while in the
city. FRESH AND PURE DRUGS. Ev-
thing usually carried in a first class drug
store. ■ .
SLOOP DRUG CO.,
Royster Building Shelby, N. C.
Make Webb’s store YOUR STORE. We
carry the best of everything in DRUGS,
PAINTS, TOILET ARTICLES, SEEDS and
STATIONERY. Call, phone or write Webb
and your orders will receive the best attention
PAUL WEBB
The Rexall Bnoj* Store
Phone 21 SHELBY, N. C.
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minutes
OF THE
Sixty-Second annual Session
OF THE
Kings fHmtntain
lapttsf Aasnrtaiinn
HELD WITH THE
MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
GASTON COUNTY.' N. C.
September 19th.20th and 21st
1912
Moderator-Rev. A. C. Irvin Route 5. Shelby, N. 0.
Clerk-D. S. Lovelace Route 8, Shelby, N. C.
Treasurer— H. D. Wilson Shelby, N. C.
J D. MURRAY PRINT
ORDAINED MINISTERS.
Blanton, J. C.
Bridges, J. D.
Bridges, B. M.
Cade, Baylus.
Crabtree, A. W.
Devenney, J. V.
Ebeltoft, T. W.
Gold, W. M.
Graham, J. G.
Hawkins, R. N.
Harrill, I. D.
Hobbs, L. M.
Irvin, A. C.
Jones, W. J.
Kester, J. M.
Lowery, J. F.
Miller, J. R.
Newton, B. F.
Robinson, C. M.
Swope, L. W.
Sims, A. H.
Suttle, J. W.
Wall, W. H.
Washburn, D.G
Webb, G.M.Sr.
Woodson, C. J.
ORDER OF BUSINESS— FIRST DAY.
10:00 a. m. — Introductory Sermon.
Distributing Enrollment Cards and enrolling delegates.
H:00 a. m. — Organization and recognition of visitors.
1:30 p. m. — Announcement of Committees as follows: 1. — Religious
Exercises. 2. — Temperance. 3. — Biblical Recorder. 4. —
Pastoral Support. 5. — Sunday School. 6. — State Mis-
sions. 7. — Ministerial Relief. 8. — Woman’s Work 9. —
Baptist Orphanage. 10. — Education. 11. — Foreign Mis-
sions. 12. — Home Missions. 13. — Obituaries. 14.— Fi-
nance. 15. — Time and Place.
The announcement of Chairman of Committees Nos. 2, 3,
4, 5, G, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 to report at next session.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES:
1:30 p. m. — Temperance.
2:00 p. m. — Biblical Recorder.
2:30 p. m.— Pastoral Support.
3:00 p. m.— Sunday Schools.
SECOND DAY.
9:30 a. m. — Devotional Exercises.
10:00 a. m.— State Missions.
H:00 m * — Report of Board Trustees Boiling Springs High School.
1:30 p. m.— Ministerial Relief.
2:00 p. m.— Woman’s Work.
2:30 p. m.— Orphanage.
THIRD DAY.
9:30 a. m.— Devotional Exercises.
10:00 a. m.— Education.
11:00 a. m.— Foreign Missions.
11:30 a. m. — Horne Missions.
1:30 p. m.— 1.— Orphanage. 2. — Finance. 3. —Time and Place. 4. —
Miscellaneous Matter, o. — Final Adjournment.
PROCEEDINGS.
The Kings Mountain Baptist Association met in her
Sixty-Second Annual Session with the Mt. Zion Baptist
Church, in Gaston County, 2-i miles North of Cherryville,
North Carolina, on the 19th, 20th and 21st days of Sep-
tember, 1912.
At 10 a. m., Thursday, the Choir sang, “Blessed As-
surance,” followed by prayer, led by Rev. J. W. Suttle.
Rev. J. W. Suttle, the appointee, asked that he be
allowed to give place and that Rev. Wade Bostic be
requested to preach the Introductory Sermon. The Asso-
ciation complied with Bro. Suttle’s request. That beauti-
ful song “Jesus Saves,” followed.
At 10. 10 a. m. , Bro. Bostic proceeded to preach the
Introductory Sermon, reading thirty-six verses of the 12th
chapter of John, emphasizing the 24th verse, “Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into
the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it
bringeth forth much fruit.” This formed the basis of a
most excellent discourse.
At the close of the sermon, the former Moderator,
Rev. A. C. Irvin, called the Body to order and appointed
Brethren A. P. Spake, B. T. Falls, J. B. Smith and 0. M.
Mull to distribute the Enrollment Cards.
The following enrolled their names as delegates:
Beaver Dam— J . L. McCurry, C. C. McSwain, J. L. Blanton, J. H. Queen
and A. B. Humphries.
Bethlehem— Rev. J. G. Graham, W. A. Bookout, G. H. Logan and D.
J. Bookout.
Boiling Springs— Rev. R. N. Hawkins, W. J. Francis, E. B. Hamrick,
D. J. Hamrick, L). S. Lovelace, J. C. Lovelace, J. L. Pruett and
John Green.
Bessemer City— A. R. Littlejohn, W. R. Wolfe and R. H. Garren.
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Buffalo— E. M. Lankford and C. R. Russ.
Casar — J. F. Clippard and B. F. Newton.
Carpenter’s Grove — J. M. Carpenter and D. C. Carpenter.
Cherry ville — J . S. Black, J. W. Kendrick and W. A. Shuford.
Double Springs— Rev. D. G. Washburn, Rev. I. D. Harrill, R. C. Gold.
G. W. Hamrick and W. W. Washburn.
Double Shoals— J. M. Green and D. C. Weathers.
Elizabeth— E. C. Borders, A. P. Spake, L. A. Beam, J. M. Tucker, C.
B. Cabaniss, Hugh Borders, W. P. Wilson and J. E. Roberts.
Fallston — J. J. Blanton and M. E. Spurlin.
Flint Hill— J. D. Bailey.
Grover— J. W. Sheppard and H. Dedmon.
Kings Mountain— Rev. J. R. Miller, G. W. Kendrick, W. D. Weaver
and G. F. Hambright.
Lattimore — Rev. B. M. Bridges, J. D. Putnam, A. M. Lattimore, E. R.
Price and J. D. McSwain.
Lawndale —
Mt. Zion— J. F. Dellinger, L. M. Wells, W. J. Ferguson and Crowder
Hardin.
Mt. Sinai — J. H. Hawkins.
New Bethel — D. F. Beam, Frank Lattimore and W. F. Cline.
New Hope— A. E. Bettis and M. L. Borders.
New Prospect — John F. Cline, J. T. Allen, D. H. Elliott, W. S. Alexan-
der, J. B. Smith and D. L. Carpenter.
Norman’s Grove — F. B. Weaver and L. H. Biggerstaff.
Oak Grove — J. R. Champion.
Patterson’s Grove — Rev. J. C. Blanton, David Wright, W. D. Putnam,
Patterson’s Station— Hugh A. Logan and Lester Camp.
Pleasant Grove— R. W. Gardner, J. Y. Elliott, Q. M. Ledford, Sylvanus
Gardner, C. F. Hendrick and C. P. Gardner.
Pleasant Hill— R. B. Francis, L. I. Kendrick and J. A. Camp.
Poplar Springs— J. C. Hamrick, E. S. Glascoe and A. M. Hamrick.
Ross’ Grove — L. A. Cabaniss, Thadeus Allen and J. M. Dedmon.
Sandy Plains— Rev. J. D. Bridges, L. S. Jenkins, Ed Walker, Z. R.
Walker, Z. Bridges and j. B. Waters.
Shady Grove — D. M. Witherspoon and J. J. Stroup.
Shelby, 1st Baptist— Rev. L. W. Swope, Rev. C. J. Woodson, George
L. English, M. N. Hamrick, H. D. Wilson, J. H. Quinn, C. C.
Hamrick, L. S. Hamrick, O. M. Mull, B. T. Falls, j. J. McMurry
and J. R. Moore, Jr.
Shelby, 2nd Baptist— Rev. J. W. Suttle, S. H. Hamrick, J. D. Barnett
and C. A. Morrison.
Union— W. F. Yelton, Geo. M. Gold, R. L. Weathers, R. L. Price, C.
E. Withrow and Lawson Walker.
Waco— S. L. Dellinger and J. W. Stroup.
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Zion— Rev. A. C. Irvin, J. M. Wilson, J. W. Irvin and F. P. Gold.
Zoar— M. 0. McEntyre, D. B. Hughes and J. P. Humphries.
Following the enrollment of delegates, the former
Moderator, Rev. A. C. Irvin, announced . the election of
officers as the next item of business. Rev. R. N. Hawkins
moved to suspend the rules and elect officers by acclama-
tion. Motion carried. Bro. Irvin, in a few brief remarks
asked the body to excuse him and elect some one else as
Moderator. Bro. B. T. Falls put in nomination Bro. O. M.
Mull for Moderator. Bro. Mull suggested that we continue
Rev. Irvin as presiding officer. Bro. Hawkins made amo-
tion to elect all the old officers. After remarks by Bro.
Mull and Revs. C. J. Woodson, J. W. Suttle and R. N.
Hawkins, Bro. Falls withdrew the nomination of Bro. 0.
M. Mull. Rev. Hawkins put his motion and the old of-
ficers, to-wit: Rev. A. C. Irvin, Moderator; D. S.
Lovelace, Clerk ; and H. D. Wilson, Treasurer, were un-
animously elected.
An invitation was extended to any churches wishing
to unite with this body, when Norman’s Grove, a new
church one mile north of Bellwood, asked to be admitted.
Rev. C. J. Woodson and Brethren W. W. Washburn and
J. B. Smith were appointed to examine the articles of faith
of said church and report at this session.
Visitors received : Rev. G. E. Linebcrry, Educational
Secretary ; E. A. Ruppe, of Shelby, Teacher of Music.
Recognized the following new pastors : Rev. L. W. Swope,
Pastor First Baptist Church at Shelby ; Rev. J. R. Miller,
Pastor Kings Mountain Baptist Church ; Rev. C. A. Cald-
well, Pastor Mt. Zion Baptist Church. '
On motion of Rev. R. N. Hawkins the Association ad-
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journecl one hour for dinner. Benediction by Rev. C. J. *
Woodson.
Thursday Afternoon.
Met at 12:50 p. m. Bro. Hawkins led in prayer. R.
L. Weathers and Hugh Borders, together with the Pastor
and Deacons of Mt. Zion Church, were appointed as a
committee on Religious Exercises.
Bro. Lineberry discussed Education (Report to be read
later. )
Rev. R. N. Hawkins read the following
REPORT ON TEMPERANCE :
^ Dear Brethren: Your committee is proud that we can say pro-
hibition is gaining ground, especially in cities and towns where the
law has been enforced, notwithstanding some say that prohibition
does not prohibit. It has been a hanging crime to commit murder and
that is the law today. Have men quit murdering? No. And yet it
prohibits to a great extent. It is a penitentiary crime to steal.
Have men quit stealing/ No. But, like the other, it keeps men from
stealing to a great extent. Well, brethren, some say that prohibi-
tion is a curse to the state. We think that prohibition is a blessing
instead of a curse. We think that king alcohol is the greatest curse
in all the world, at home and abroad; from the rivers to the end of
the earth.
Now for the proof: The Army War College at Washington made
an investigation of the destructiveness of war. Taking all the wars
of the world, from the Russo-Japanese war back to 500 B. C., the
War College found that the total number of killed and wounded in
battle amounted to 2,800,000, of which it is estimated that about
700,000 were killed and something over 2,000,000 wounded. The com-
parative figures show the appalling fact that alcohol is killing off as
many Americans every year as all the wars of the world has killed in
battle in 2,800 years. Applied to the whole white race we find that
alcohol is killing 2,500,000 white men every year; five times as many
as have been killed in war in 2,300 years. So we find that alcohol is
ten thousand times more destructive than all wars combined. No
wonder that the Government's investigating the subject has found
that war has been only a secondary cause of National decline, and
that alcohol has been the real destroyer which has overthrown all the
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nations of the past, and is now undermining the great nations of
today.
The full ravages of alcohol are not measured, even by the appal-
ling list of killed and wounded. Alcohol kills and wounds ten thou-
sand times more than all wars combined.
It is estimated that the cost of crime produced by alcohol in the
United States paid for by direct taxation, exceeds $2,000,000,000.
The people of the United States consumed more than one arid one-half
billion gallons of alcohol beverage, paying for same nearly two bil-
lions of dollars.
Now brethren, let all of us come to the help of the .Lord against
the mighty, each doing his best. Let us put our shoulder to the wheel
and we will overcome this great curse— king alcohol. We can do it
if we will.
R. N. HAWKINS,
R. W. GARDNER,
J. M. GREEN,
- Committee.
Pending the motion to adopt the above report, Tem-
perance was discussed by Rev. R. N. Hawkins in his usual
emphatic style, after which the report on Temperance was
adapted.
Bro. Geo. P. Webb read the following :
REPORT ON BIBLICAL RECORDER :
It is a painful fact that our church paper has not been appre-
ciated as it should be. This fact becomes peculiarly acute, when we
realize that we are living in an age of many “isms” and when strange
doctrines are being preached and practiced, thus often deceiving the
most p re cautious.
Believing that the mind is the feeder of the soul, receiving its
food from papers and books, your Committee deem it dangerous for
the soul to live without a knowledge of the great things transpiring
in the world, touching the Kingdom of God.
Believing further, that this knowledge reaches the mind through
Biblical Literature, we would urge that every family in this Associa-
tion take the Biblical Recorder, and that it should have no rival. It
is our organ, furnishing courage, comfort and hope, our bond of unity,
stirring us to heroic endeavor in crises when our dearest interest 'is
involved.
m
There are other excellent Journal ably conducted and well edited,
but without the influence and power of this one, our forces would be
in constant confusion, our glory would fade, our church zeal would
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slacken, and the spirit of the brotherhood of man could not so per-
fectly find its enjoyment in our civilization.
This paper is our trusted leader in every good cause. It led our
fathers and shall it not continue to lead us and our children? It was
never more efficient than it is today, nor has it ever filled a larger
place in the life of the denomination. It will continue to be a keen
impetus to our lives and cause our church to prosper in proportion as
it is read in our homes.
We heartily commend the present management of this paper as
worthy of the confidence of all our people and we note with joy the
ever increasing influence and power of this paper of righteousness
and truth.
Above all, your Committee would urge our pastors and Sunday
School workers to make a special effort this year to create a love
among all our people for Bible study and the Recorder, and to get
more people to read these truths; for, after all, we may escape from
the social and political perils which environ us by living in obedience
to the teachings of these things and they will be the true pilot that
can steer us through this complex age— an age where self sometimes
seems to predominate and where our faith is ever on trial.
When the Bible and our Recorder are read and studied as they
should be, our people will be inspired to higher ideals, our church take
on new life, and doubt and gloom will vanish before our eyes like the
mist before the advancing sun.
GEO. P. WEBB, I
W. J. FERGUSON, } Committee.
G. W. HAMRICK, j
. On motion to adopt, Biblical Recorder was discussed
by Brethren Geo. P. Webb and S. E. Garner. Said re-
port was adopted.
After a song, “Guide Me on the Way,” State Mis-
sions was discussed by Dr. Livingston Johnson. (State
Mission report to be read later. )
On motion, Foreign Missions was made a special or-
der for 7:30 this evening.
On motion the Association adjourned to 7:30 p. m.
Benediction by Rev. J. R. Miller.
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Thursday— Night Session.
Met at 7:30 p. m. Music by the choir. Prayer by Rev.
D. G. Washburn.
Rev. D. G. Washburn read the following:
REPORT ON FOREIGN MISSIONS :
A just and comprehensive view of Foreign Mission opportunities
at present is the greatest inspiration in the Kingdom of God on earth.
The complete transformation of China within the last few months
is one .of the greatest events in human history. A radical change of
one-fourth of the human race intellectually and politically and the
making of them ready for spiritual readjustment, in so short a time,
is without parallel in the history of nations.
The Foreign Mission Board located at Richmond, Va., is a com-
mittee appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention to carry on
this, our Foreign Mission work, by the co-operation of all our churches
and in behalf of all our people.
It is our work. One member of the Board lives in each state and
is called the State Vice-President. He is expected to confer with the
board and with the churches in the interest of the work. At the pres-
ent meeting of the body this association is expected to elect this Rep-
resentative of the Foreign Mission Board to serve until the next meet-
ing of the association.
Our present fields are Argentina, Biazil, Mexico, Italy, Afiica,
Japan and China.
The present number of missionaries is 271. The native workers
have been increased to 577, making a total force of 848. The 342 na-
tive churches are growing in self-support and missionary efforts. The
422 Sunday Schools are doing aggressive work. Nine Women’s Train-
ing Schools have three hundred and twelve students, and ten theolog-
ical schools have two hundred and forty-five students. These with
the other 208 schools of all grades have 6,156 pupils. In six hospitals
and thirteen dispensaries, thirteen medical missionaries treated 51*, 796
patients during the year. Four publishing plants are sending out mil-
lions of pages of religious lite ratine.
The contributions for 1911-12 were $580,408, a gain of $70,400 over
the previous year. Of this amount 12% was used for expenses at home
as follows In Richmond, 5 per cent., W. M. U., 1 pei cent., intei
est, 2h per cent. ; State expenses, 3A per cent. This percentage of
expenses is larger than the Board wants it to be. Our people can re-
duce it very much by sending their money all through the year, so as
to save the interest account. Let it also be remembered that a large
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part of the money used at home is expended in efforts to arouse our
people and increase contributions.
The work has often been greatly helped by bequests and annu-
ities. More and more our people ought to remember the Board in
their wills. Pastors can exert a blessed influence in this direction.
A still better way is to give money to the Board on the Annuity Plan
whereby the donor receives an income from the gift during his life.
Write to the Board for particulars.
The Southern Baptist Convention asked the churches to raise
$618,000 for Foreign Missions this year. Every dollar of it is needed
to meet past obligations and maintain the work on a hopeful basis.
The convention apportioned this amount among the varous states, and
the amount asked of each state is apportioned among the associations.
It is very important that this association, either through its executive
committee, or a special committee, apportioned the amount asked of
it among the churches.
One hundred years ago Adoniram Judson and Luther Rice went
out to India as Congregational Missionaries. By the study of the Bi-
ble they became Baptists. This fact aroused the Baptists of America
to undertake foreign missions in an organized way. The most signifi-
cant advance ever ordered by the Southern Baptist Convention took
place when the Oklahoma meeting last May authorized the Foreign
Mission Board to raise one million, two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars as an Equipment Fund in honor of the Judson Centenial. One
million dollars of this to be used for equipping our schools and publi-
cation work. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is to be used for
building chapels, hospitals and missionary homes. This is a mighty
call, but it is made to a mighty people. This fund is to be raised dur-
ing the next three years. It is to be entirely separate from the reg-
ular foreign mission offerings and the effort will be made to secure it
in such a way as not to interfere with any other cause.
We recommend. 1. — That all our people help in our foreign mis-
sion work by sympathy and prayer; by subscribing for and reading the
Foreign Mission Journal; by distributing tracts which can be had for
the asking; by making our offerings as large as possible; by sending
in their gifts now and not waiting for the season of pressure in March
and April.
We recommend that this association institute a campaign ol mis-
sions, that our churches adopt the envelope system of giving, also
that our pastors and deacons heartily co-operate in this campaign for
the Lord’s work.
D. G. WASHBURN,
Z. R. WALKER,
A. E. BETTIS,
1 Committee.
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Foreign Missions was discussed by Rev. Wade Bostic,
after which the Foreign Mission Report was adopted. On
motion, adjourned to 9:30 tomorrow morning. Benedic-
tion by Rev. J. C. Blanton.
Friday Morning Session.
The association met at 9:30 a. m. Music by the choir.
Religious Exercises were conducted by Rev. J. G.
Graham from the 15th chapter of John. Prayer by Rev.
J. R. Miller.
At 10 a. m. the Moderator called the body to order.
Rev. C. J. Woodson, chairman of committee on new church,
reported they have found church covenant and rules of
decorum all right, but had not seen the Articles of Faith.
The committee reported later on Articles of Faith, that
they had found the Norman’s Grove Church to be Ortho-
dox and recommended that said church and her delegates
become a member of this association. Said report was
unanimously adopted.
(See delegates names in regular list of delegates.)
Visitors received : Rev. Z. D. Harrill of the Sandy
Run Association.
Rev. C. W. Payseur, of Blacksburg, S. C. ; Bro. Archi-
bald Johnson, of the Thomasville Orphanage; Bro.
Barrett, of Gastonia; Bro. E. L. Middleton; Rep. S. S.
Board, S. E. Garner, Rep. Biblical, Recorder; Dr. -L.
Johnson, Corresponding Secretary State Mission Board
and Rev. C. E. Gower, of the Mecklenburg-Cabarus Asso-
ciation. Rev. J. R. Miller, of Kings Mountain, read the
following :
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REPORT ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS :
It is no longer needful to discuss the authority for Sunday Schools,
before an intelligent, Bible-reading people. From the first of the
Old Testament, we are commanded to teach God’s word. The Sunday
School is the modern organization for the teaching of the word. Well
has it been called the Teaching Service of the church.
Our knowledge of God’s word determines our efficiency in God’s
service; “Blessed are they that know and do His commandments. ”
“My people perish for want of knowledge.” Our inefficiency today
and the large number of our people who give little or nothing to the
spread of the gospel; is due to the want of knowledge of God’s word:
In other words; they do not attend Sunday School. Perhaps no other
agency of the church is more efficient in the development of our people
than the Sunday School. If there was some way to determine the
proportion, I am inclined to believe that more than three-fourths of
our gifts to missions, comes from the people who attend Sunday
School.
It is a well established fact that the Sunday School is our depen-
dence for additions to the churches; more than 80% of our new mem-
bers, each year, coming from its ranks. Then for our Sunday School
to do their work, we need the best possible equipment and the co-
operation and personal support of every member of the church.
We need to use our Sunday School Literature. We need to use
all the help that can be had through our State Secretary and the Field
Secretary of our Sunday School Board at Nashville, Tenn. We need
Teacher Training classes. We need to teach our Sunday Schools to
give to all departments of our work. Above all we must emphasize
that the chief work of the Sunday Schools is to lead men to Christ.
J. R. MILLER, i
G. F. HAMBRIGHT, 'Committee.
M. O. McENTYRE, \
Upon motion to adopt, Sunday Schools was discussed
by Bro. Middleton, Rev. C. J. Woodson, R. N. Hawkins,
J. T. Bowman. The S. S. Report was adopted.
The Orphanage was made a special order for 1:30 this
afternoon.
Bro. J. H. Quinn read as follows :
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ANNUAL REPORT OF BOAD TRUSTEES OF THE
BOILING SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL:
To the Kings Mountain and Sandy Run Baptist Association :
The Board of Trustees of the Boiling Springs High School herein
submits its fifth annual report since the opening of your school in the
Fall of 1907.
The passing of another year has witnessed a marked growth in
sentiment favorable to our school in all sections of the two associa-
tions and throughout the two Carolines. At the present time ten
counties in North Carolina and five in South Carolina are represented
in our student body, approximately one-third of our students coming
from the latter state.
The fifth year of your school closed April 25th, nearly three weeks
earlier than in previous years, with a most creditable commencement
program. The school sent forth its third graduating class, composed
of seven young men and three young ladies, to-wit : Messrs. J. B.
Jones, J.'p. Calton, J. 0. Ware, T. F. Harris, A. V. Hamrick, W. T.
Tate, and T. L: Wilson; and Misses Kate Moore, Frette Huskey, and
Lucy Lattimore, the graduating class being doubled the size of that
of the previous year. Certificates were issued to the graduates. The
total enrollment for the year was 229.
For two years past your Board has had immediate control of and
been responsible for the financial interest of the school. Pievious to
that time, these responsibilities were assumed by the principal. This
change has proven to be to the best interest of the school. After all
outstanding accounts for these two years shall have been collected
there will still be some shortage in running expenses.
Your Board is pleased to report only two changes in faculty from
last year, Miss Gwendolen English, and Mr. T. L. Wilson, leaving to
prosecute their studies in higher institutions. They were both faith-
ful and efficient teachers and were held in highest esteem by their co-
workers and the student body. Your school has suffered more in the
past from frequent changes of principal than from any other cause,
but we are pleased to report that Prof. W. J. Francis, a native of
Haywood county, N. C., and a graduate of Wake Forest College,
whose services were so very satisfactory last year, retains the prin-
cipalship of the school. His long and successful experience in school
management eminently fit him for the position he holds.
We are pleased to report that Prof. J. D. Huggins, who has been
with the school from its birth and whose faithful services in its behalf
are known wherever the school is known, remains Assistant Principal.
Also that Miss Etta Curtis, who has been with us so long and has
proven herself to be so well fitted for the position, remains Lady Prin-
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cipal. After the mother, we know of no one better fitted to have
charge of the girls.
During the last scholastic year, an Art Department was added to
the school and Miss Bessie Rogers, of Raleigh, N. C., a graduate of
Meredith College, and a most talented and successful teacher, was
placed in charge of this department and continues in charge thereof.
The work in this department has succeeded beyond our most sanguine
expectations.
The following constitute the faculty for the present term :
Wm. J. Francis, A. B., Bible Department.
J. D. Huggins, A. B., Mathematics, Science, and Elocution.
Miss Etta Curtis and Miss Hester Francis, Intermediate Depart-
ment.
Mrs. J. D. Huggins, A. B., Department of English.
Miss Ezelia Hamrick, B. L., Latin and History.
Miss Cornelia H. Barbee, Director of Music.
Miss Bessie Rodgers, Assistant in Music.
Miss Hester Francis, Commercial Department.
Miss Bessie Rodgers, Department of Art.
Miss Rosa Kirby, Matron.
No corps of teachers were ever more loyal to a school or more
faithful in the discharge of the irrespective duties than the above.
All have had thorough collegiate training and each is especially equip-
ped for his or her respective department.
The following colleges are represented in the foregoing faculty:
Wake Forest, Meredith, Erskine, Woman’s College, of Richmond,
Va., Catawba, Southern Conservatory of Music, and Shockley Busi-
ness College.
Excellent board on the club plan at actual cost is furnished. The
average price in the past has been under $8.00 per month. We do
not believe such board at this price can be duplicated in any other
institution in North Carolina. The success in this department is due
to the efficient matron, Miss Rosa Kirby, a graduate in Domestic
Science.
No department of the work is doing more for the development of
the student body than the four Literary Societies of the school two
for young men, the Athenian and the Kalagathian, and two for young
ladies, the Ramseur and the Kalliergeonean. They continue to add to
the equipment, to their already handsomely furnished halls that would
be a credit to many of our colleges.
Since our last report, the main building, with its furniture, has
been re-insured to the extent of $12,000.00 for a term of three years,
and the greater part of the woodwork on the outside of the building
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has been painted. These items of cost were partially met by collec-
tions taken at the last sessions of the two associations. The total re-
ceived to date on these collections aggregate $210.04, while the actual
disbursements by the treasurer on the above two items of expendi-
ture aggregated $259.05, making a balance due the treasurer on ac-
count of these two items $49.01. A part of the woodwork on the
rear of the building on the exterior, and all of the interior of the
woodwork is in need of painting. The brick ought to be painted also.
Through the persistant efforts of Prof. J. D. Huggins, assisted
by a number of the students and loyal friends of the school, an Acety-
line plant has been installed for the benefit of the school, without di-
rect expense to your board or to the school. The actual contract price
of this plant was $1,180.37. Prof. Huggins, who is agent for the
company from whom the plant was purchased, has given the school
more than his commission on the plant which generosity is very much
appreciated by your Board. The generator is of 300-light capacity
and is inclosed within a small house at rear of the main building. The
main building has been equipped with lights and the boys’ dormitory
with twenty-seven lights. The Boiling Springs Baptist Church will
be supplied with lights from this plant. The generator is large
enough to supply the requirements of the institution should other
buildings in the future be erected. Prof. Huggins informs us that
while many churches and individuals have contributed to the purchase
of this plant there is yet due on same a balance ol $468.63. It is de-
sired that all churches that have not contributed to this improvement
make an effort to do something at an early date. This system of light-
ing is almost ideal, the lights being pleasant to the eye and the cost
of maintenance and the possibility of accident being reduced to a mini-
mum. A nominal charge will be made to the students for lights.
Through the faithful efforts of Prof. Francis and other leading
citizens of the community, a very deep well has just been completed
for the joint use of this school, the public school and the Baptist
church. This will insure the best of water near the building. This
improvement is, also, without expense to your Board or to your school.
Through the efforts of Miss Curtis and the Civic League, the
yard has been beautified, concrete walks constructed, and the yard
enclosed by an iron railing.
A memorial arch was presented to the Trustees at the last com-
mencement by the senior class. It stands at the south-east corner of
the main building.
The school opened on August 13th and will close April 25th, allow-
ing one week for Christmas holidays. An early opening and closing is
advantageous to many of our patrons. The total enrollment to date
for the present session is 200, there being 107 males and 93 females.
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This is 29 more than last year at this time and is the largest enroll-
ment at this season of the history of the school.
The young ladies and lady teachers room in the main building,
while the young men occupy the other two dormitory buildings and
rooms in private homes. The Board, appreciating the importance of
having the Principal at all times on the school grounds, has arranged
for the Principal to occupy the Moore cottage which is situated near
the new Boys’ building. The building is now being enlarged -and
otherwise improved and will soon be ready for occupancy.
A distinguishing characteristic of this school is the moral atmos-
phere that prevails at all times. Potent factors in this line are the
Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. Membership in these is not com-
pulsory, but both are well attended. All students are required to at-
tend church and Sunday School each Sunday. Special stress is placed
upon the Bible department of the school. Only recently a successful
series of revival services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Baylus
Cade, assisted by the ministerial students of which we now have 7 in
number.
The terms of the following members of this Board from the Kings
Mountain Association expire with this session, to-wit : B. T. Falls,
J. H. Quinn, S. H. Hamrick, G. H. Logan, and J. P. Irvin; and the
terms of the following from the Sandy Run Association expire with
the present session, to-wit : Rev. H. D. Harrill, D. M. Harrill, and
W. A. Martin.
The Indebtedness.
While the last year has witnessed the greatest reduction in the
volume oi the indebtedness of the school made in any one year, yet
your Board reasonably expected a much larger reduction in view of
the action of many of the churches last year in formerly assuming the
payment of their apportionment of the indebtedness. We regret to
state that we have already paid in interest alone since the beginning
of the enterprise more than $5,000.00. How much longer will the
more than 13,000 members of these great associations allow this
suicidal policy to continue.
The total collections since last report on the old indebtedness ag-
gregate $3,646.78. Of this sum $2,300.00 were paid on principal and
$1,346.78 on interest. This leaves approximately yet due on principal
and interest $12,500.00.
The aggregate sum of the distributive shares assumed by the
churches of the two associations at the last sessions thereof amounted
to approximately $7,500.00, about half the sum then due. Of course,
many of the churches had assumed and paid their distributive shares
in whole or in part prior to that time. Of the sum so assumed last
year only about one-half has been paid to date, thus leaving about
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$3,800 of the sum assumed unpaid. Assuming that this will yet be
paid by the churches assuming it, there yet remains of the indebted
ness unprovided for about $8,700.00.
Your Board most earnestly recommends that the churches that
have already pledged to this cause proceed at once to raise same ^
execute a joint note by the members thereof to be used jj/thlt have
in the discharge of the indebtedness, and that the c hurc ^ that hav
not already formerly assumed the payment of their distributive shar
of the indebtedness be asked to do so at the present session of the tw
associations and that individuals be urged to subscribe asufficentsu
to make up the deficit. Where the cash cannot be raised in the near
future, your Board urges the execution of notes to cover the
The following churches have to date paid their distributive share
of the indebtedness with interest: Zoar, Sandy Plain.,
Elizabeth, Mt. Zion and the following churches have paid their appor-
tionment alone. Shelby, Zion, Mt. Pleasant (C), Green ? ,v ® ^
leen, Henrietta, High Shoals, Bethlehem, Pleasant Hill, and Ross
Grove. . ,
At a recent meeting of this Board, a resolution was unanimously
adopted urging each church in the two associations to make mimster-
. . 1 , .. t . Rnilino- Snrinffs High Schoo one of the fixed ob-
lal education in the Boiling bpungs
jects for which the church makes annual contributions. This assist
■mce is needed by the school to enable it to compete successfully with
other schools in this section that receive assistance either from public
funds or from the Home Mission Boaul.
Your Board again urges both associations at their present sessions
to make heroic efforts to lift this tremendous burden ott °“ r se J, 00 '
that the cause of education may prosper in our midst and that God
may be glorified thereby.
This, the 19th day of September, A. D. 1912.
J. H. QUINN, Chairman.
Pending a motion to adopt, the following spoke to the
foregoing report, Viz: J. H. Quinn, J. T. Bowman, Prof.
W. E. Francis, C. J. Woodson, E. L. Middleton. The
latter’s time was extended 30 minutes beyond the limit.
The discussion was further continued by Brethren Archi-
bald Johnson, J. L. McCurry, J. R. Miller and George L.
English.
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Bro. Geo. L. English offered the following resolution,
Viz:
Resolved — That the Report of the Trustees of the Boiling Springs
Higfr School be adopted and that same be referred to a Special Ad-
visory Committee on Finance of seven business men to be selected by
the Moderator, which committee shall meet with said Trustees as soon
as possible and endeavor to formulate plans for the early liquidation
of the indebtedness of the school.
The above resolution was discussed by Revs. J. W.
Suttle, C. J. Woodson and Bro. J. H. Quinn.
The said resolution and .the report on Boiling Springs
High School were adopted.
Pursuant to the above resolution, the following Spe-
cial Advisory Committee were appointed, Viz: George L.
English, J. T. Bowman, Will Kendrick, D. J. Keeter, J.
T. S. Mauney, G. W. Hamrick and A. E. Bettis.
On motion adjourned one hour for dinner.
Benediction by Rev. J. W. Suttle.
Friday — Afternoon Session.
The people assembled in the house at 1:30 p. m.
Singing by the Choir.
Prayer by Rev. G. W. Payseur.
Bro. M. N. Hamrick read as follows, the
REPORT ON TIME AND PLACE :
We, your Committee on Time and Place, recommend that the
Kings Mountain Association meet with the Zion Church, six miles
north-west from Shelby, on Thursday before the fourth Sunday in
September, 1913. Also recommend that Rev. L. W. Swope be ap-
pointed to preach the Introductory Sermon at next session with Rev.
D. G. Washburn, Alternate.
M. N. HAMRICK, )
D. J. HAMRICK, Committee.
E. C. BORDERS, J
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The report on Time and Place was unanimously
adopted.
Rev. J. G. Graham read the following :
REPORT ON ORPHANAGE :
Our Orphanage at Thomasville has been in existence for twenty-
seven years. During this time it has lovingly and tenderly cared for
about 1,300 children. About 400 are now in the institution which is
crowded almost beyond its capacity. May this not appeal to those who
have the means that they may honor God by giving the means neces-
sary to add every needed building.
The aim of the Orphanage is to give these fatherless children a
Godly home, a Christian education and such training as will best fit
them for life’s work.
The belongings of the Orphanage at present consists of four hun-
dred acres of land, near Thomasville, about one-half of which is in cul-
tivation; 1,200 acres in Lenoir county, near the town of Kingston,
eleven dormitories, a central dining hall, a sewing room, a central
school building where a first-class graded school is taught and the
Technical and Mills buildings, which is occupied entirely by Charity
and Children (and Bro. Johnson).
The general health of the Orphanage the past year has been bet-
ter than ever before. Not a single death from disease; one by acci-
dent. The school has done a great work. Along with the regular
school work the boys are trained in the shoe shop, the printing office
and in dairying, in truck and in general farming; while the girls are
taught to sew and cook and do general housework.
The contributions of the past year have been the best we have
ever had. Surely God is laying the burden of this great work heavier
on the (hearts of His people. The crop prospect on the farm is good
this Fall, but the high cost of living and the poor crop of last year,
caused by the drought, has run us into debt somewhat.
The magnificent Kennedy Gift is to be an arm of the Orphanage,
and sirnpiy means enlargement and clearly calls for more and larger
gifts. We earnestly trust that those who have more of God's wealth
will erect memorial buildings for helpless and needy children. The
crying need at the Kennedy Home at present is for dormitories which
should be built at once, and an auditorium and larger school building
at Thomasville which is very sorely needed.
The enlargement is not keeping pace with the increasing calls of
distress. Fifty per month are pleading to be admitted, but forty-five
of these have to be turned away to struggle alone and oftentimes fall
under the hard conditions of life without hope.
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More than $100.00 per day is needed to run this institution as it
should be run; therefore, your committee begs to recommend:
1. That every S. S. in the association make a monthly offering
to the Orphanage.
2. That every church make a special offering on Thanksgiving
Day or some Sunday near it, at which time, let the pastor bring, as
forcibly as possible, the needs of the Orphanage before his people.
3. That the Superintendent of each Sunday School see that there
is a good club of subscribers, Charity and Children, in the school— 60
cents a copy in clubs of ten or more.
J. G. GRAHAM, )
D. F. BEAM, - Committee.
W. W. WASHBURN, )
The Orphanage was discussed by Bro. Archibald
Johnson, and Flake, of Mississippi, spoke for the
B. Y. P. U. in connection with the Orphanage.
The report on Orphanage was adopted.
Rev. J. D. Bridges and Brethren A. P. Spake and
Geo. P. Webb were appointed as delegates to attend the
next meeting of the Baptist State Convention.
Prof. Francis read the following:
REPORT ON STATE MISSIONS :
State Missions is the first and most pressing obligation upon North
Carolina Baptists. This arises from considerations, which ought to be
obvious to all thoughtful persons; but which are not appreciated, ob-
vious as they may be, by the great majority of our people. In order
that .these considerations of obligation to our own people may more
clearly appear, your Committee may be allowed to make herein a sim-
ple restatement of them.
It is certain as anything can be, that our natural affections for
the citizens of our own state puts a weight of obligation upon us to
give the blessings ol the gospel to them, such as it puts upon us to
enlighten no other people in the world. Our obligation to the pagan
world is large beyond question, but our obligation to our own home
people is far larger and more pressing, since we are bound to the per-
sons of our own home by ties of natural affection, nearer and more
tender than those connecting us with the outside world.
There are wide sections of North Carolina where Baptists are al-
most unknown. It may be said that those sections in North Carolina,
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where there are few or no Baptists, have been evangelized by other
denominations. This may be true. But that consideration does not
lessen our obligation to plant our churches there. Every thoughtful
Baptist knows that our interpretation of the New Testament has been
of infinite value to him, and he must also know that our interpreta-
tion of the New Testament would be of equal value to any other per-
son whomsoever, who may be led to accept it. We owe it to our
brethren of other denominations to give to them a whole gospel, as
much as we owe it to the unsaved to give it to them. The simple
truth is, that Baptist are the only ones of the great denominations in
the world, who hold and teach the religion of the New Testament en-
tirely free from all taint of that hateful ritualism, which has marred
Christianity through the ages more than all other evil forces together.
Baptists have a mission to their brethren of other denominations, as
well as to the unsaved of our citizensihp.
The way for Baptists to most speedily and certainly bring about
the evangelization of the whole world is, to speedily, certainly and
fully bring about the evangelization of North Cai’olina. This state-
ment of fact is not alone justified, but it is compelled, by the great
doctrine in the Bible, that Christianity does not, and never did, con-
quer by administration. It can be administered; no, not at all. It
conquers by growth, and it conquers by growth alone. It conquers by
growth, because it is life. Any element in the educational dynamic
of the world, any element in the Home Mission dynamic, any element
in the Foreign Mission dynamic, that is to be gotten from North Caro-
lina Baptists, will come from the growth of the Baptists in North
Carolina. The only way under the government of God to get any-
thing valuable for Education, for Home Missions, for Foreign Mis-
sions out of North Carolina Baptists is, to promote the growth of the
Divine Life in the North Carolina Baptists. And it is the work of
encouraging and directing this growth of the Divine Life in the North
Carolina Baptists, whereabout our State Mission Board and its agen-
cies are concerned.
We want our whole Home Land saved; we want the whole Pagan
world saved; well then, hurry up, and save the whole of North
Carolina.
Respectfully submitted,
BAYLUS CADE, )
J. M. WILSON, V Committee.
E. S. GLASCOE, j
State Missions having been previously discussed by
Dr. L. Johnson, the report on same was adopted.
Rev. B. M. Bridges read as follows, the
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REPORT ON MINISTERIAL RELIEF :
This board that administers this department of our work is located
at Durham, N. C. Its object is to assist Baptist ministers who have
worn themselves out in the Master’s service.
It seems that the Lord, in Mis wisdom, has left a number of them
in the care of the churches.
Of all the benevolent objects surely the aged minister, who has
given his life service to the cause of our Master should be cared for
by the Lord’s people.
We now recommend these to you that you may help them.
B. M. BRIDGES, 1
C. B. CABINESS, \ Committee.
S. GARDNER, j
The above report was adopted without discussion.
Rev. I. D. Harrill read the following:
REPORT ON PASTORAL SUPPORT :
Christ, when sending the seventy forth, said : “The laborer is
worthy of his hire.” Paul said : “Even so hath the Lord ordained
that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.”
We find that quite a number, or all of our pastors has to resort
to other means of support. This should not be. We recommend that
our pastors be paid a living support, and we urge it upon this dele-
gation to see that this is done.
I. D. HARRILL, )
J. W. IRVIN, V Committee.
L. A. CABANISS, J
The above report was adopted.
Bro. Geo. L. English read the following:
REPORT ON WOMAN’S WORK :
To the Kings Mountain Association of Baptist Churches :
Dear Brethren : —
The work of the Woman’s Missionary Union of North Carolina
during the past year has steadily advanced. A most inspiring Jubilee
Missionary Meeting was held in Greensboro, followed by minor Jubi-
lees in Charlotte, Waynesville, Gastonia, Elizabeth City and Fayette-
ville, which have sent a great wave of missionary zeal and enthusiasm
all over the state. This has manifested itself in part in the organiza-
tion of 183 new societies, forty Mission Study Classes, a substantial
increase in gifts, a growing interest in Missionary Literature, and a
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larger attendance, especially of: young women at the state meeting.
The large increase in subscriptions to the quarterly woman’s magazine,
“Our Mission Fields” is very gratifying.
The Standard of Excellence adopted by »the Union last year
formed the basis of the year’s work, and many good results have been
realized by having definite ideals towards which to work. Though
many societies have failed to reach a standard entitling them to en-
rollment in the “List of Honor”; the success attained by some is a
stimulus to others. Especial mention is due to the Young Woman’s
Auxiliaries and the Sunbeams, twelve whose societies are enrolled in
the “List of Honor” and Class A, they being the only ones of the 824
societies reporting who attained to this distinction. This is evidence
of the growing enthusiasm for missions among the young people and
children.
One of the most hopeful signs of the realization of responsibility
for the spread of the gospel is the reported increase in number of
“Tithers,” or those “setting aside not less than a tenth of their in-
come for the spread of God’s Kingdom at home and abroad.” It has
been well said that “A tithing church means an evangelized world.”
Only as Christians at large realize, as these women do, that a tenth
of our income belongs to the Lord by divine right and not by our own
gift, and thus realizing systematically separate it from our other
funds, will the glorious triumph of the gospel be attained.
If we seek instances of the truest heroism we will find them not
so surely among soldiers before the cannon’s mouth, as among the
earnest, consecrated Christian women who quietly give and work and
pray, sacrificing gladly even the necessities of life and denying them-
selves many of its harmless pleasures in order that they may have
money and time to personally obey the Great Commission, “Go ye
into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” Such
heroism shows itself in the minutes of our own Association last year,
and will doubtless appear again this year. 347 women having contrib-
uted to Foreign Missions an average of 57.5 cents each, while all oi
the other members of our churches contributed an average of but 8.4
cents per member. Oh brethren! Let us pray that God may use
these noble women to arouse us to our responsibility in the advance-
ment of His Work.
Very respectfully submitted,
GEO. L. ENGLISH, )
E. B. HAMRICK, -Committee.
J. B. SMITH, )
Woman’s Work was discussed by Brethren George L.
English, E. L. Middleton and C. E. Gower.
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The report on Woman’s Work was adopted.
Rev. D. G. Washburn, and Brethren A. P. Spake and
L. Blanton were appointed to suggest five men for Trus-
tees of the Boiling Springs High School and report at this
session.
Rev. J. W. Suttle was appointed Vice-President of the
Foreign Mission Board.
Bro. A. P. Spake was appointed to take charge of the
Sunday School Work in this Association.
Rev. L. W. Swope, of Shelby, N. C , was elected as
delegate to attend next Session of Southern Baptist State
Convention, with Rev. D. G. Washburn as Alternate.
On motion adjourned to 9:30 a. m. Saturday morning.
Benediction by Rev. J. G. Graham.
Saturday— Morning Session.
The people gathered in the house pursuant to adjourn-
ment.
Music, “Crown Him Lord of All.”
Religious Exercises were conducted by Rev. I. T.
Newton, from Acts 26-20.
The Moderator called the body to order.
Rev. J. D. Bridges read the
REPORT ON HOME MISSIONS :
A remarkable growth in Home Mission conditions and liberality
has characterized Southern Baptists in recent years. Southern Bap-
tists in the fiscal year ending May, 1902, raised $88,874; in the fiscal
year, ending May, 1912, they raised $366,050.00. More than 11,000 of
these are the direct result of the work of Home Missionaries. Home
Board Missionaries constituted 231 churches in 1902 and 693 in 1912.
More than ever before, men and women who long and labor for
the coming of the Kingdom of Christ on earth are seeing that in the
real Christianizing of America lies the hope of Christianizing the
world.
“As America goes so goes the world. M
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But so long as nearly two-thirds of the people of the South are
not members of any church whatever, the work of Christianizing them
is far from being complete.
We are facing serious difficulties. Our own people are not all
Christians and more than 500,000 foreigners landing in this country
every year that remain, to say nothing of the thousands that come
every year, stay awhile and leave.
By bringing hundreds of thousands of foreigners every year to our
country God is putting to test the sincerity of the Missionary Spirit
in American Christianity. In the South the immigrant is a smaller
problem than in the North, but he is a much larger problem in the
South than our Christian forces have proven themselves to be able to
cope with. In the territory of the Southern Baptist Convention there
are more than 1,000,000 foreigners. There are nearly three and one-
half million foreigners, and children born of foreign parentage. For
the year ending June, 1911, the foreign population of the South was
increased by sixty thousand immigrants. When we consider the size
of the foreign population in the South it must be confessed that we
have not developed a missionary activity adequate to the needs and
opportunities. Among these millions we only have fifty missionary
workers. These foreigners need the “gospel which is the power of
God unto salvation to every one that believeth that they may be
saved and that they may help purify the great stream of immigration
as it continues to flow into this country.
There, too, is the Canal Zone which, at once, should be well sup-
plied with missionary workers. Thirty-five thousand men are em-
ployed to work on the Isthmian Canal. The missionary workers have
been very successful among these workmen but things will soon change
there. Much of the work done there has been of a temporary charac-
ter, but as the Canal is nearing completion we should look to per-
manency.
The date set for the formal opening of the Canal is January the
1st, 1915, but the Chief Engineer says that he will be reudy to admit
ships by September the 1st, 1913. This passway will shorten the dis-
tance from Liverpool to San Francisco by water by 0,000 miles and
from New York and New Orleans by 10,000 miles. It can readily be
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seen that the world’s population will soon be passing through this
United States passway. Missionary workers with proper equipment
should be stationed at every place where a permanent settlement will
be made and where a village, town or city may spring up.
There are eleven thousand churches in the territory of the Southern
Baptist Convention that give nothing to missions. These ought to be
trained in the ‘ ‘Grace” of giving that they might have “fruit that
would abound to their account’’ and that they might help to give the
gospel to them that have it not.
There are also three thousand houseless churches; churches that
have no house of their own in which to worship God. Some of these
meet in rented halls, some in school buildings and some under brush
arbors.
The Southern Baptist Convention at its session in 1912 at Okla-
homa City authorized the Home Mission Board to raise a One Million
Dollar Church Building Loan Fund, so that houseless churches and
churches that may be constituted after now, may, by aid of the Board,
be able to build houses in which to meet and worship.
Your committee requests thot all the churches make earnest
prayer throughout the year for the workers and the work.
J. D. BRIDGES, )
C. F. HENDRICK, - Committee.
C. P. GARDNER, \
Home Missions was ably discussed by Revs. J. D.
Bridges, J. W. Suttle and C. J. Woodson, after which the
report on same was adopted.
Bro. A. P. Spake read the following:
REPORT ON OBITUARIES :
The church letters show that fifty-six of our members died during
the past year.
A. P. SPAKE, )
G. H. LOGAN, \ Committee.
F. P. GOLD, J
The report on Obituaries was adopted.
Bro. D. C. Carpenter read the report on Finance Com-
mittee, Viz:
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To the Kings Mountain Baptist Association :
Your Committee on Finance begs leave to report
for the various objects, as follows :
State Missions
Home Missions
Foreign Missions
Orphanage
Ministerial Education
Ministerial Relief
Sunday School Missions
Training School
Minute Fund
cash collections
$244 96
169 61
199 73
187 80
36 17
42 74
12 00
1 00
62 91
Total
$956 92
O. M. MULL,
D. C. CARPENTER,
C. C. McSWAIN,
- Committee.
The Finance Committee’s Report was adopted.
(Note: Later the Sandy Plains Church paid in as fol-
lows: State Missions, $11; Home Missions, $6; Foreign
Missions, $11; Orphanage, $11; Old Ministers Relief, $2;
Total, $41. These amounts have been paid over to the
Treasurer. )
Bro. A. P. Spake made a motion to have Treasurer’s
Report read in full before the Body and condense it in the
minutes.
Motion carried.
(Note: This was done to save space and consequently
sevei-al dollars in the cost of printing minutes. )
On motion the Treasurer’s Report was adopted.
Rev. J. W. Suttle made a motion authorizing Clerk to
insert advertisements to supplement the Minute Fund and
to print Proceedings of Woman’s Missionary Meeting in
our minutes.
The above motion was unanimously adopted.
Minutes of Kings Mountain Association.
The Committee to select Trustees for the Boiling-
Springs High School reported as follows :
We recommend that the same brethren whose terms expire at
this session be reappointed, viz : Brethren B. T. Falls, J. H. Quinn,
S. H. Hamrick, G. H. Logan, and J. W. Irvin.
D. G. WASHBURN,
A. P. SPAKE,
J. L. BLANTON,
Committee.
Said report was adopted.
The following were appointed as Chairmen of Com-
mittees to report at the next
Temperance
Education
Biblical Recorder
Sunday Schools..
Orphanage
State Missions
Home Missions
Foreign Missions
Ministerial Relief
Pastoral Support
Woman's Work..
session of this body, viz :
Rev. J. R. Miller
Prof. W. J. Francis
Rev. J. D. Bridges
Bro. Geo. P. Webb
Rev. J. W. Suttle
Rev. L. W. Swope
Rev. D. G. Washburn
Rev. J. G. Graham
Rev. B. M. Bridges
Rev. I. D. Harrill
Bro. Geo. L. English
Rev. J. G. Graham offered the following resolution,
viz :
Kesohed. I hat the thanks of this Association be tendered to
the good people of this church and surrounding community for the
veiy kind and hospitable way they have entertained us during the
three days of the Association.
Respectfully,
J. G. GRAHAM
The above resolution was unanimously adopted by a
rising vote.
A collection amounting to $150.00 was taken to defray
Minutes of Kings Mountain Association. 29
expenses of Ministerial Students now in the Bolling Springs
High School.
(We cannot give names for want of space.)
On motion the Association adjourned to meet with the
Zion Baptist Church, six miles north-west from Shelby,
N. C. , on Thursday before the Fourth Sunday in Septem-
ber, 1913. Rev. L. W. Swope to preach the Introductory
Sermon with Rev. D. G. Washburn, Alternate.
Benediction by Rev. J. G. Graham.
A. C. IRVIN, Moderator.
D. S. LOVELACE, Clerk.
30 Minutes of Kings Mountain Association.
Treasurer'S Report.
H. D. Wilson, Treasurer, in account with the Kingn Mountain
Association from September 23, 1911, to September 16, 1912.
State Missions — Received from Finance Committee $ 189 65
Received from Various Churches 71 70
; . $ 261 35
Paid to W. Durham 261 35
Home Missions — Received from Finance Committee $ 256 33
Received from Churches and other organizations 85 82
' $ 342 15
Paid to W. Durham 342 15
Foreign Missions — Received from Finance Committee $ 232 13
Received from Churches, etc Ill 02
$ 343 15
Paid to W. Durham 343 15
Orphanage— Received from Finance Committee $ 166 25
Received from other sources 48 47
$ 214 72
Paid to S. H. Averett 214 72
Ministerial Education — Received from Finance Committee $ 60 50
Received from other sources 17 00
$ 77 50
Paid to W. Durham 77 50
Ministerial Relief— Received from Finance Committee] $ 54 50
Received from other sources 8 48
$ 62 98
Paid to W. Durham .* 62 98
Minute Fund for 1911 — Received from Finance Committee $ 67 76
Received from other sources 27 31
$ 95 07
Paid out to Printer $85 00
Paid out to Clerk 5 06
Paid out to Treasurer 5 01
$95 07 95 07
Sunday School Missions— Rec’d from Finance Committee $ 16 42
Received from other sources 9 42
Minutes of Kings Mountain Association. 31
? 25 84
Paid to W. Durham 25 84
Chinese Famine Fund — Rec’d from Ross Grove Church $ 2 38
Paid to W. Durham 2 38
Assoeiational Missions — Rec’d and in hands of Treasurer 2 40
Margarett Home — Rec’d from Sun Beams of Shelby Baptist
Church . 1 00
Paid to W. Durham 1 00
Other Societies and Organizations.
Boiling Springs— Sun Beams; Mrs. J. W. Wood, President; Shelby,
N. C., R. 3
Bessemer City— Y. L. M. S. ; Mrs. Ellen Stroup, President; Bessemer
City, N, C. ; No. members, 20. Sunbeams; Mrs. Nellie White,
President, Bessemer City, N. C. ; No. members, 20.
Cherryville — Sunbeams; Roy McDowell, President; Cherryville, N. C. ;
No. members, 12.
Elizabeth — Sunbeams; Miss Lillie Allen, President; Shelby, N. C.,
R. 7; No. members, 62.
Grover — Sunbeams; Miss Vivian North, President; Grover, N. C.
Kings Mountain— Sunbeams; Miss Lois Miller, President; Kings Moun-
tain, N. C. ; No. members, 40.
New Bethel— Sun Beams; Mattie Lee Cline, President; Lawndale,
N. C. ; No. members, 35.
Shelby Second Baptist — Sunbeams; Miss Bertie Lee Suttle, President;
Shelby, N. C. ; No. members, 30.
(Note — Account of W. M. S. will appear in their report.)
Minutes of Kings Mountain Association.
Random Thoughts.
Mt. Zion was a new place to some of us, it being 1 on
the eastern border of our territory. We were favorably
impressed with the place and the people. The church
building and the cemetery presented a neat appearance.
This is the first session the Kings Mountain Associa-
tion has ever held with this church. Mt. Zion Church
joined this body at Bethlehem in 1872—40 years ago-by
letter from the Broad River Association.
This was a good session from start to finish. It began
with a very impressive introductory sermon on Thursday
and closed Saturday with a good collection to defray ex-
penses of Ministerial Students of the Boiling Springs High
School.
The reports and the speeches were excellent; so were
the order and the weather.
It is evident that many lasting impressions were made
on those who attended this session.
The choir led by Bro. B. H. Roberts gave us splendid
music. Clerk.
Minutes op Kings Mountain Association. .33
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Other Contributions Not Contained in Tables.
Boiling Springs Church— To AssociationalM issions $
Colportage
Colleges and Schools
Bethlehem— To Colleges and Schools
Casar — To Sunday School Mission
Carpenters Grove — To Sunday School Mission
Cherry ville — To Colleges and Schools
Elizabeth — To Sunday School Mission
Chinese Famine
Colleges and Schools
Kings Mountain— To Sunday School Mission
Colleges and Schools
Lattimore— To Colleges and Schools
Mt. Zion — To Sunday School Missions
- 4 .
Colleges and Schools
New Bethel— To Colleges and Schools
New Prospect — To Sunday School Mission
Colleges and Schools
Patterson Station — To Colportage
Colleges and Schools
Pleasant Hill— To Colleges anti Schools
Poplar Springs — To Sunday School Mission
Colleges and Schools
Ross Grove— To Sunday School Mission
Colleges and Schools
Sandy Plains— To Sunday School Mission
Shudy Grove— To Sunday School Mission
Shelby 1st Baptist— To Colleges and Schools
Shelby 2nd Baptist— To Sunday School Mission
Colportage
Zion— To Sunday School Mission
Zoar— To Sunday School Mission
2
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108
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104
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3.4 Minutes of Kings Mountain Association.
Contributions From Other Sources.
Bethlehem — Sunday School Expenses $ 12 00
Orphanage 5 00
Boiling Springs— Sunday School Expenses 38 91
B. Y. P. U. and Sunbeams — To Home Missions 1 75
Foreign Missions 1 75
Colleges and Schools 6 25
Bessemer — To Sunday School Expenses 25 00
Orphanage 38 22
Y.‘ L. M. S. to Home Missions 3 00
Foreign Missions 4 00
Colleges and Schools 7 72
Sunbeams to Home Missions 3 00
Foreign Missions 15 10
Cherryville — Sunday School Expenses 24 63
State Missions 3 13
Foreign Missions 2 52
Sunday School Missions 4 97
Orphanage 42 98
B. Y. P. U. and Sunbeams to State Missions 1 00
Home Missions 3 25
Foreign Missions 3 00
Double Springs — Sunday School Expenses 2 61
Double Shoals— S. S. to S. S. Mis 3 30
Orphanage 1 79
Elizabeth — Sunday School Expenses 34 47
Foreign Missions 1 33
Orphanage 1 93
Sunbeams to State Missions 5 00
Home Missions 12 66
Foreign Missions 9 00
Chinese Famine 5 20
Colleges and Schools 2 00
Other Objects 1 95
Fallston— To Sunday School Expenses 12 02
Orphanage 10 42
Grover— Sunday School to Incidentals 18 50
Colportage .* 9 94
Orphanage 23 00
B. Y. P. U. and Sunbeams to Sunday School Expenses.. 1 00
State Missions . 97
Home Missions g5
Foreign Missions 5 99
Minutes op Kings Mountain Association. 35
Kings Mountain — Sunday Schools to Incidentals 28 92
Sunday School Expenses 32 23
Orphanage ' 70 63
B. Y. P. U. to State Missions 3 50
Home Missions 7 55
Foreign Missions 10 00
Other objects 9 75
New Bethel— To Sunday School Expenses 30 16
Sunday School Missions 4 42
Orphanage 39 65
Other objects .* 18 02
B. Y. P. U. and Sunbeams to Foreign Missions 23
New Hope— To Sunday School Expense 13 75
Orphanage 4 54
Other objects 2 50
B. Y. P. U. and Sunbeams to State Missions 1 18
Pleasant Grove— Sunday School Expenses 10 00
Shelby 1st Baptist S. S. to S. S. Mis 10 00
Orphanage 99 37
Y. L. M. S. to State Missions 1 56
Home Missions 4 36
Foreign Missions 4 91
Shelby 2nd Baptist Sunday School to Incidentals 28 59
Sunday School Expense 49 96
Colportage 19 31
Other objects 46 97
Waco — S. S. to Building and Repairing 18 10
Incidentals 9 00
Sunday School Expense 14 65
Sunday Schools 2 00
Orphanage 2 00
Zoar— Sunday School Expenses 2 68
36 Minutes of Kings Mountain Association.
Totals.
u
Sunday School Expenses . $ 304 07
Orphanage 339 50
State Missions 16 44
Home Missions 36 42
Foreign Missions 56 89
Colleges and Schools.; 15 97
Sunday School Missions.... 22 69
Other objects 78 29
Incidentals 85 01
Colportage 28 35
Building and Repairing 18 10
Sunday Schools 2 00
Chinese Famine 20
Grand Total
$1003 93
FINANCIAL
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Beaver Dam
Bethlehem
Boiling Springs.
Bessemer City
Buffalo
Casar
Carpenters Grove.
Cherryville
Double Springs
Double Shoals
Elizabeth.
Fallston
Flint Hill.
Grover
Kings Mountain.
Lattimore
Lawndale
Mt. Sinai.
Mt. Zion
New Bethel
New Hope
New Prospect
*Norman’s Grove..
Oak Grove
Patterson Grove...
Patterson Station.
Pleasant Grove
Pleasant Hill
Poplar Springs
Ross Grove.
Sandy Plains
Shady Grove
Shelby 1st Baptist
Shelby 2nd Baptist
Union
Waco
Zion
' Zoar
Total '$8321 63'14595 74 1229 24 490 56141 22 625 38 409 i
STATISTICAL TABLE.
CHURCHES.
CLERKS AND THEIR
POST OFFICES.
R e ?Li e l Dam 9* McSwain > Lattimore, N. C
Bethlehem M. L. McSwain Kino-c Mtn “
PASTORS AND THEIR
POST OFFICES.
Boiling Springs..
Bessemer Citv
Buffalo
Casar
Carpenters Grove.
Cherryville
Double Springs....,
Double Shoals
Elizabeth
Fallston
Flint Hili ::
Grover
Kings Mountain...
Lattimore
Lawndale
Mt. Sinai
McSwain, Kings Mtn,
D J. Hamrick,... R. 3, Shelby,
J. R. Rollins, ...Bessemer City,
A. C. Dedmon, R. 2, Cherryville
0. C. Downs, Casar
A. D. Warlick, R. 1, Cleve. Mils
J. H. Trott, Cherryville,
J. L. Green, R. 4, Shelby,
J. M. Green, R. 6, Shelby,
Geo. Dover, R. 7, Shelby,
Lem'l Williams,. ..R. 6, Shelby,
Newman Adair, ...R. 3, Shelby.
J. A. Ellis, Grover,
D. F. Hord,... Kings Mountain,
C. B. Hamrick, R. 2, Moor’sb'o,
Jas. H. Foyles, Lawndale,
A. L. Putnam, Cherryville,
m1 Z1 p 0 L-;; ;L. R- Putnam, ..yit. 2, Shelby,’
New Bethel
New Hope
New Prospect
*Norman’s Grove.
Oak Grove
Patterson Grove..
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L.M. McSwain, R.l, Bl’ksburg, S. C.
O. C. Dixon, R. 6, Shelbv, N. C.
F. B. Weaver, Lawndale, “
W. J. Hicks, ....R. 2, Kgs Mtn,
jy 0 -W. C. Ledford, Kings Mtn,
Patterson Station. H. A. Logan, R. 7, Shelby
P easant Grove R. W. Gardner,... R. 6, Shelby
Pleasant Hill R. B. Francis, R. 7, Shelby
Poplar Springs E. L. Holland, R. 3, Shelby,
Ross Grove Joe E. Blanton,. ..R. 5, Shelby,
£? n <jy I lams J. F. Green, ...R. 1, Lattimore,
Shady Grove D. R. Stroup, Cherryville
Shelby 1st Baptist O. M. Mull, Shelbv’
Shelby 2nd Baptist Jasper Barnett, Shelbv’
L nion R- L. Weathers, ...R 5, ’Shelby’
Waco S. P. Miller, L.Waco
Zoar J- P- Humphries, R 2, Shelby,
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J. G. Graham Kings Mtn, “
Baylus Cade R 3, Shelby,
L. M. Hobbs. ...Bessemer City,
L. A. Bangle Cherryville,
W. M. Gold R 3, Ellenboro,
W. M. Gold R 3, Ellenboro,
C. M. Robinson Cherryville,
D. G. Washburn... R 4, Shelby,
A. C. Irvin R 5, Shelby,
J. W. Suttle Shelby.
I. T. Newton Blacksburg, S. C.
B. M. Bridges Mooresboro, N. C.
J. R. Miller Kings Mtn, “
D. G. Washburn. ..R 4, Shelby, “
C. W. Payseur Blacksburg, S. C.
C. A. Caldwell Henry, N. C.
J. M. Goode R I, Shelby, “
C. W. Payseur Blacksburg, S. C.
J. W. Suttle Shelby, N. C.
. D. Harrill R 4, Shelby,
3. F. Newton Casar,
3. M. Bridges Mooresboro,
I. D. Harrill R 4, Shelbv,
H. D. Harrill Forest City,
D. G. Washburn. ..R 4, Shelby,
I. D. Harrill R 4, Shelby,
J. C. Gillespie Charlotte,
I. D. Harrill R 4, Shelby,
Z. D. Harrill Ellenboro,
L. A. Bangle Cherryville,
L. W. Swope Shelby,
J. W. Suttle Shelby,
D. G. Washburn. ..R 4, Shelby,
C. M. Robinson Cherryville,
A. C. Irvin R 5, Shelby,
D. G. Washburn... R 4, Shelby,
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Boiling Springs....
Bessemer City
Buffalo
Casar
Carpenters Grove.
Cherryville
Double Springs
Double Shoals
Elizabeth
Fallston
Flint Hill
Grover
Kings Mountain...
Lattimore
Lawndale
Mt. Sinai
Mt. Zion
New Bethel
New Hope
New Prospect
*Norman’s Grove..
Oak Grove
Patterson Grove...
Patterson Station.
Pleasant Grove
Pleasant Hill
Poplar Springs
Ross Grove
Sandy Plains
Shady Grove........
Shelby 1st Baptist
Shelby 2nd Baptist
Union
Waco
Zion
Zoar
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300
600
500
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100
250
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360
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70
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53 38
8 65
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36 97
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SUNDAY SCHOOL STATISTICS.
CHURCHES.
SUPERINTENDENTS AND
POST OFFICES.
Beaver Dam
Bethlehem
Boiling Springs....
Bessemer City
Buffalo
Casar
Carpenters Grove.
Cherryville
Double Springs
Double Shoals
Elizabeth
Fallston
Flint Hill
Grover
Kings Mountain...
Lattimore
Lawndale
D. B. Green R 4, Shelby, N
G. H. Logan Kings Mountain,
O. N. Hamrick R 3, Shelby,
S. S. Wells Bessemer City,
0. F. Yelton R 1, Shelby,
M. N. Pruett Casar,
J. M. Carpenter... R 1, Belwood,
N. B. Kendrick Cherryville,
Columbus Harrill... R 4, Shelby,
E. A. Morgan R 6, Shelby,
1. B. Allen R 7, Shelby,
C. A. Hoyle R 2, Lawndale,
T. D. McSwain R 3, Shelby,
J. A. Ellis Grover,
Forrest Floyd... Kings Mountain,
I. D. McSwain Lattimore,
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Mt. Sinai. |A. 1. Stroup Chenyville,
Mt Zion ij. H. Hawkins R 2. Shelby,
New Bethel Carme Elam Lawndale,
New Hope ‘A. E. Bettis — "..Earl,
New Prospect J. B. Smith.. R 1, Shelby,
*Norman’a Grove.. A new chinch.... ••••••>
Oak Grove W. H. Putnam, R 4, Kings Mtn,
Patterson Grove ..iBenton Putnam, Kings Mouiitn,
Patterson Station. T. H. Lowery, Patterson Spgs,
Pleasant Grove Loyd Hamrick R (j, She by,
Pleasant Hill L. L Kendrick K 7, Shelby,
Poplar Springs M. [L Moore R 3, Shelby,
Ross Grove ' IJ. M. Dedmon R 5, Shelby,
Sandv Plains ... C. R. Whitaker, R 1, Lattimore,
Shadv Grove': |D. R- Stroup Cherryville,
Shelby 1st Baptist George Blanton Shelby,
Rhp1hv9ml Raotist B. L. Lcdwcll Shelby,
J. T. S. Mauney R 5, Shelby,
Dr. A. L. Little Waco,
J. W. Irvin R 5, Shelby,
W. H. McSwain R 3, Shelby,
Shelby 2nd Baptist
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J. A. Newton -Casar,
J. C. Hoyle, R 1, Cleve’d Mills,
E. E. McDowell Cherryville,
Paul Philbeck R 1, Lattimore,
C. R. Spangler, R 6, Shelby,
H. H. Allen R 7, Shelby,
I. 1. Blanton Fallston,
Beuna Holland R 3, Shelby,
I. F. Dixon Grover,
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E. R. Price Lattimore,
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Eula Weaver R 2, Shelby,
C. M. Ledford Lawndale,
R. E. Nicliol Earl,
O. C. Dixon R 6, Shelby,
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W. A. Styers Kings Mtn,
Mollie McSwain, Patterson Spgs
Sylvester Elliott R 6, Shelby,
Miss Delia Camp... R 7, Shelby,
Win. Lattimore R 3, Shelby,
D. C. Elliott R 1, Shelby,
Gaither Allen R 1, Lattimoie,
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E. N. Wood Shelby,
G. A. Green R 5 , Shelby,
C. C. Beam W aco,
Wilbur Simmon- R 5, Shelby,
Gertrude Street R 2, Shelby,
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g-j-^TISTICAL TABLE WOMAN’S MISSIONARY UNION.
W. M. S.
PRESIDENTS AND
POST OFFICES.
Bessemer City
Boiling Springs....
Cherryville
Double Springs
*Elizabetn
Grover :
Kings Mountain...
New Bethel
New Hope
Total.
Mrs. W. L. Lynch, Bessemer City...
Mrs. J. W. Wood, R 1, Shelby...
Mrs. L. C. McDowell, Cherryville....
Mrs. Loula Hamrick, R 4, Shelby....
Mrs. I. B. Allen, R 7, Shelby
Miss N. M. Livingston, Grover
Mrs. J. G. Graham, Kings Mtn...
Mrs. Frank Elam, Cleveland Mills...
Mrs. Violet Austell, Earl
Mrs.
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SECRETARIES AND
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POST OFFICES.
R. H. Garran, Bessemer City.~
W. A. Elam, R 3, Shelby...
E. E. McDowell, Cherryville..
Ollie Green, R. 4, Shelby
Geo. Dover, R 7, Shelby
J. F. Dickson, Grover
J. Bumgardner, Kings Mtn
C. Elam, Lawndale
Mayme Austell, Earl
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YOUNG WOMAN'S AUXILIARY.
Bessemer City | Miss Ellen Stroup, Bessemer City.. | Miss Etta White, Bessemer City.
SUNBEAM BANDS.
^Elizabeth
Grover
Kings Mountain...
Cherryville
Lillie Allen, R 7, Shelby ?L*L a w,? £J^ by
Vivian North, Grover.
Lois Miller, Kings Mountain.
Ray McDowell, Cherryville.
Loyd Dickson, Grover
Lois Hambright, Kings Mountain.
Lois Kendrick, Cherryville.
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Foreign
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* Elizabeth W. M. S. to Boiling Springs High School 3 5 6 ' 2°^ f 1 ' " Sh ^ I'l w t C h u r e h Shelby 2nd Church, Union, Zoar, Zion.
W M S’s that made no report-Bethlehem, Lattimore, Ross Grove, Shelby 1st Church, bnemy
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Minutes of Kings Mountain Association. 47
MINUTES
OF THE
WOMAN’S MISSIONARY UNION
OF THE
KINGS MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION.
The first separate meeting of the Woman’s Missionary
Union of the Kings Mountain Association was held at
Kings Mountain, September 5th and 6th, 1912.
The meeting was opened by singing “All Hail the
Power of Jesus’ Name,’’ after which the Devotional Ex-
ercises were conducted by Mrs. E. C. Borders.
Miss Emma Cornwell gave a most cordial address of
welcome to the Woman’s Missionary Union in behalf of
the Woman’s Missionary Society and the citizens of Kings
Mountain.
The meeting was well attended and most of the Soci-
eties were represented by delegates. The number of del-
egates was large considering the place of meeting was at
the extreme South-Eastern bounds of the Association.
The interest and zealousness manifest by those in
attendance was inspiring and there was a pervasive at-
mosphere of spirituality hitherto unknown in the annual
meetings.
Organization was followed by reports from Woman’s
Missionary Societies of the Kings Mountain Association.
The Constitution was read and adopted.
The election of the nominating committee is as fol-
48 Minutes of Kings Mountain Association.
lows: Mrs. Forrest Floyd, Chairman; Mrs. W. L. Lynch,
Mrs. E. C. Borders, Mrs. Eugenia Poston and Mrs. C. A.
Hamrick.
The hymn “Stand up for Jesus’’ was sung, followed
by prayer.
The Annual Report of the President, Mrs. Wm. Ar-
cher, proved that the untiring efforts she has set forth
have been rewarded. There has been an increase in num-
ber of members of each Society reporting at annual
meeting, and gain in gifts is mai’ked.
Mrs. Frank Elam prepared a paper on State Missions
stating the condition of work carried on by the State
Mission Board. Telling of the destitution existing in some
sections, the valuable aid rendered by W. M. U. and
Young Peoples Societies and the great need oi further
help.
Mrs. Herndon, of Kings Mountain, read a paper on
Home Mission Problems which fully stated the conditions
and needs of this, the great Problem of Southern Baptists.
Echoes of the Annual Meeting in Monroe were given
by Mrs. L. C. McDowell, Mrs. Eugenia Poston, Mrs. E. C.
Borders, Mrs. Lynch told of the strength and inspiration
derived from it.
This was followed by a Woman’s Missionary Confer-
ence and many helpful suggestions as to methods of en-
larging the work, distributing literature and increasing
membership were given.
Dismission by prayer.
The afternoon session was begun at 2 o’clock by sing-
ing “Rescue the Perishing,” Mrs. C. E. Mason, of Char-
lotte, N. C., conducting the Devotional Exercises, reading
from 13 chapter 1st Cor.
Minutes of Kings Mountain Association. 49
Mrs. Mason was asked to continue the exercises by-
explaining the Standard of Excellence for W. M. S., Y.
W. A., R. A. and Sunbeam Bands. If the Standard of
Excellence could be reached by all the Societies in this
Association, by each Church in the Association, the work
on Mission fields could be increased 20%.
The following committees were appointed:
Margaret Home.
Mrs. E. C. Borders, Chairman, R 7, Shelby; Mrs. E.
E. McDowell, Cherry ville; Mrs. F. W. Wood, Shelby.
Training School.
* Mi ss Emma Cornwell, Chairman, Kings Mountain;
Miss Pearl Herndon, R 2, Kings Mountain; Miss
Ruth Styers, Cherryville.
Literature Committee.
Mrs. J. G. Graham, Chairman, Kings Mountain;
Mrs. R. H. Garran, Bessemer City; Mrs. W. A.
Webb, R 3, Shelby; Mrs. Violet Austell, Earl; Mrs.
Geo. Dover, R 7, Shelby; Miss Mattie Wray Elam,
Cleveland Mills.
Obituaries.
Mrs. C. J. Woodson, Chairman, Shelby; Mrs. D. G.
Washburn, R 4, Shelby; Mrs. J. F. Dixon, Grover;
Mi’s. D. B. Hughes, Shelby; Mrs. L. C. McDowell,
Cherryville; Mrs. J. R. Miller, Kings Mountain; Miss
Ida Dixon, Cleveland Mills.
Time and Place.
Mrs. Lester Self, Chairman, Cherryville; Mrs. J. R.
Miller, Kings Mountain; Mrs. L. M. Hobbs, Besse-
mer City.
50 Minutes op Kings Mountain Association.
Central Committee.
Mrs. Zeb V. Cline, R — , Shelby; Mrs. Geo. English,
Shelby; Mrs. J. B. Hamrick, Shelby; Mrs. C. A.
Hamrick, R 4, Shelby; Mrs. Eugenia Poston, R 7,
Shelby'
The officers of the preeeeding year were elected
unanimously. They are as follows:
Mrs. Wm. Archer, Associational President.
Miss M. Livingston, Vice-President.
Mrs. J. W. Wood, Treasurer.
Mrs. Frank Elam, Secretary.
Prayer and song.
Some Plans of Work for the year by Mrs. Archer
urged that the members of societies be more constant in
prayer, strive for deeper spirituality and a fuller sense of
personal responsibility. That each one may work with
zeal and enthusiasm, plans for enlarging each department
of Mission work in the Societies. That the numbers may
be greatly increased.
Foreign Missions was discussed. Mrs. Mason told of
the glorious work now being done on the Foreign Fields,
of the great advance being made in evangelizing the
world; of the schools where the minds are being trained
by Christian teachers; of the hospitals where both soul
and body are healed.
The immensity of the field and the meager number of
workers were compared.
May the Master who gave the command “Go ye.”
give grace that the laborers may be sent.
The Session was closed with prayer by Mrs. Eugenia
Poston.
Minutes op Kings Mountain Association.
51
Thursday night at 8 o’clock the exercises were begun
by a song service by the choir.
Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. J. R.
Miller, followed by an address on Missions. The address
was complete. No point was left untouched. The im-
mensity of the field, the great need of an increased num-
ber of consecrated laborers on the Foreign Fields, the
duty of Churches and individuals in sending the laborers
that the Great Commission might be fulfilled was made
plain.
The World’s Religion was illustrated by Maps and
Charts and an explanation of same given by Mrs. Mason.
The enormous extent of Papal territory was shown and
the enormous spread of Roman Catholicism in the U. S.
was clearly shown.
Songs and a solo with benediction closed this helpful
and impressive service.
Friday morning service was begun by singing ‘ ‘Work
for the Night is Coming.” Mrs. Lynch conducting the
devotional exercises.
Miss Gazzie Osborne being unable to attend sent a
paper on Our Training School, which showed thought and
care in its preparation, telling of the great work the
Training School is doing and the importance of enlarging
the work that more workers in the Master’s Vineyard may
be properly trained.
Reports from the Young Woman’s Auxiliary were
heard and a carefully prepared paper, helpful in every
feature showing that it is practical and possible for the
Y. W. A. to be maintained in Country Churches, and how
it may help the W. M. S.
Dismission by prayer.
52 Minutes of Kings Mountain Association.
Friday afternoon the song “Onward Christian Sol-
diers” was sung.
Mrs. J. W. Wood conducted the Devotional Exer-
cises.
The Sunbeam Band of Kings Mountain continued the
exercises with bright songs, addresses of welcome and
recitations, plainly illustrating the value of training the
children.
Mrs. J. W. Wood further illustrated the value of early
Christian training by telling how boys who have outgrown
the Sunbeams organize the Royal Ambassadors and con-
tinue the training started in Sunbeam Bands. The great
good accomplished by this only eternity can tell.
Report of committee on resolutions is as follows:
Resolved, That the Woman's Missionary Union of the Kings
Mountain Association offer a vote of thanks to the ladies of the W.
M. S., the Sunbeam Band, and the citizens of Kings Mountain for
their kind entertainment, and manifold kindnesses shown while their
guests.
It is very apparent that the Delegates will leave deeply in love
with the host of kind, courteous inhabitants who know how to make
pleasant the stay of visitors.
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